Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-04-25


The retirement of Professor Ty udall into
privacy, on account Of i'll health, from the po.
sition in which he has held in the Royal In.
stitution since 1853, and to which no one has
as yet been nominated, is noted with regret
John Tyndsll, LIZ D., +. X :. was born
about ls2o, in the village OF Leighlin. bridge,
near Carlow, in Ireland. His parents were
in very humble circumstances, but they
gave him the b sst education in their power
and sent him to = school where he acquired
sound knowledge OF mathematics At the
age OF nineteen he joined in the capacity OF
"civil assistant" a division OF the ordnance
survey which was stationed in his native
town. In lSii he was engaged by q firm in
Manche ster, and for ab ut three years he was
employed in engineering opersticLs IN con.
nection with railways. In lSf' he accepted
an appointment as teacher in Queenwcod
college in Hampshire, . new institution de-
voted partly to the preliminary technical ed
ucation OF agrculturists and engineers. Here
he became acquainted with Mr.. (uow Dr. }
Frankland, who was resident chemist to the
college, and here he commenced those orig
inal Investigations In which have placed him In
the foremost rank among the explorers Of
science. In lS4S the two friends quilted
England and went to the university OF Mar.
burg, in Hesse Cassel, where they studied
under Bunsen. Afterwards Mr.. Tyndall
prosecuted his researches in the laboratory
of Magnus, at Berlin. He condu ucted investi.
cations on the phenomena Of diamsguetism,
etc, and produced a volume on this subject
In lsS3 having been previously elected a
Fellow OF the Royal Society, he WAS chosen
professor OF natural philosophy in the Royal
Institution of Great Britain, and succeeded
As uperiutendent In lS56 he joined Prof.
Huxley to the glaciers Of 5 Switzerland, return.
ing there again and pursuing his investigs.
tions during lSS,-S-9, reaching Chamouni on
Christmas night in 1859, and two days after
ward reaching Montsuvert where he re
mained three days, determining the winter
| motion OF Mer de Glace In 1859 he com
menCed his researches on radiant heat In
| lS72 Prof. Tyndsll lectured in the United
States, the proceeds OF his lecture being given
to an interest to aid students Prot Tyndall
presided at the apnusl meeting of the British
| sssoc ation held at Belfast in August ls74
He accepted the presidency OF the Birming
ham and Midland institution for the ear 1877.
Prof Tyndalt has written numbers OF books
and pamphlets. Among these may be found
"The Glaciers of the Alps" 1860, "Moun.
ta,neering," lS6l, 90 Vacation Tour 1852
Heat Considered as a Mode of Notion
1858, "On Radiation" the "Rede Lecture D
ISIS, volume on "Sound" lSS3 "Faraday
| "a q Discoverer," "Notes on Electricity
1870, "Notes on Light" 1879, Hours OF Ex
| ercise in the Alps ISL "The Forms o
| ciers," lsT2, "Address Delivered Before tn
British Association Assembled at Belfas,
with Additions and Preface" ls74, "Frse
ments of Science" 1876, and Essays on tn
Floating Matter of the lir in Relation to Pu
trefaction and Infection" Tyndsll marrie
| February 20, 1876, Louisa Claude Hamilton
| eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Hamilton